Archive for July, 2007
Goths in books
Goth is easy enough to dis, what with the spooky stuff it seems to entail, but studies of late seem show it in a much more positive light, funny as that might sound. I stumbled across this review in the Chronicle of Higher Education while browsing through Arts and Letters Daily. Professor Mikita Brottman reviews […]
Giant steps are what you take
…when you have tickets to see the Police in concert. Oh yes. Six months from now, but holy @#$%^&**&^%$# I’m going to actually see the actual Police in actual concert. Fourteen-year-old-me would have killed for this. Current me is pretty over the moon too. We forked out for the mid-range tickets - nosebleed seats when […]
Here we go again
So they’re at it again. The “Islamists” at the red/yellow/pink mosque in Islamabad. The government in its infinite wisdom reopened it for Friday prayers and promptly had a riot on their hands. The images on BBC World were just awful, but confirm that, in situations like this, while their reporting is fairly even-handed, they opt for […]
A review
Some time before the summer between eighth and ninth grade, I started to volunteer at my junior high school library. I shelved books, checked books out and in, sorted index cards, and did all the other things you do to help keep a library running. In exchange, I got first dibs on all the books […]
I’m DONE!
I handed in my thesis a few minutes ago and I want to collapse. Or sleep. Sleep would be good too. Instead of being all elated and relieved, I’m feeling quite bereft. I want it back. I want to do it over. Not because what I handed in, despite its pretentious title, is bad, but because […]
Eight bits and pieces
It is amazing how Penni always manages to distract me at just the right moment. This time its 8 things about yours truly. Yes, I know. Fascinating stuff, isn’t it? But first, the rules:
each player lists 8 facts about themselves
the rules of the game appear before the facts do
the player ends by tagging 8 people, […]So THAT’s why I love cars!
I’m almost done with my thesis. So almost-done, in fact, that I watched the Transformers movie yesterday. I think there may be spoilers in the following post, although there’s really nothing new about the storyline.
Wow. I was kind of expecting it to suck. I really was. But while there were loose threads galore and some […]